Auden Type "Tattoo"

The "Tattoo Type" is an industrial class of 0-4-0PT tank engines and one of the standard types of locomotives designed by the Reginald Auden Locomotive Company. They were built between 1892 and 1897. They were commonly used by contractors and poorer industrial firms due to their simple design and ease of maintainance.

The class was designed by George Auden in 1890 for shunting and short distance goods workings, though the first of the class was built as the works shunter at Saxonia Works where she would spend her whole working life. The class was mainly delivered to sites where space was limited or    

Works Number:	Original Owner:	Name:	Number(s):	Current Location:	Details:
192/1892	Reginald Auden Locomotive Company	"Saxonia Works"	N/A	Kirkham Railway Centre	Used as the works shunter
204/1892	Edward Barton & Associates, Contractors	N/A	14	Knightsbury Industrial Museum	Coupled to GN&SR Diag. S2 №44, two private owner wagons and a VCLR brake van.
517/1897	Cottsberry Lubrication & Lamp Oils Company	N/A	3	Annesley Railway	Named "Camilla" in 2011, only operational locomotive of the class.

An additional locomotive built using the frames, motion, wheels & cylinders of this class survives; though they have been used to create an 0-4-0 tender engine. The locomotive was built in 1977; the "Tattoo Type" components are from Works №388/1894 "Nethershall №7" which had been withdrawn two years earlier from Nethershall Colliery near Redwick with the majority of the locomotive being scrapped, the tender was one found on a farm (again, near Redwick) and is from a Redwick & Knightsbury Railway A Class 2-4-0 (presumed to be №17 "Baldur").